Crown and Pushers: Detail and design are at is peak here. See pic below. Ceramic covered crown (signed) and pushers, crown is very big, with a unique shape and with a gazillion turns to screw it down.

Dial: Looks very clean for a chrono. Nice white dial with a well made pattern. It is said to be carbon fiber, but it does not look like it to me. Big date is a plus, and looks very nice on the top position with the chrono second hand on top.

Bezel: Another highlight of the watch. Big, all ceramic, with carved and white paint filled numbers and marks. 6 steel screws are used on it, but not any screws. These are "Edox Logo" shaped, and they are even cooler than the already cool Hublot ones. Operation is really smooth, and another noticeable aspect of it is that it is so well balanced and leveled that, when cleaning the crystal with a cloth, it feels like there was all crystal and no bezel. 

Hands: Hands are pretty simple. They go well with the dial, but nothing special here.

Bracelet: Unusually decorated, as the exterior links have are polished and the interior is brushed. Besides being very solid, the clasp is top notch, and it even has perlage on the interior of the scissors section, showing again extreme attention to detail. See pics. It does use push pins (wire style) and does not have half links, though.

Lume: Lume is marginal to non-existent. Probably the weakest point of the watch. Tiny lume tips on the hands, even smaller and less bright 5 minute markers, lumed triangle at the bezel and that's about it. Besides the size, not particularly brigth. Well, someone could argue that Class 1 races are performed in sunny beaches with plenty of bikinis around, and not at night...

Timing: Quartz...

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Last edited on Fri May 21st, 2010 08:06 am by ral